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Available Open Access under CC-BY-NC licence. This important book explores the values of equality and diversity as promoted across liberal societies, drawing on various traditions of political and social philosophy, including liberal egalitarianism, existentialism, and elements of post-modernism and post-structuralism. These philosophies are applied to policy and practice debates, especially concerning disability issues, but also relating to gender and multiculturalism. It will be of interest to academics and postgraduate students across a range of social studies disciplines

This important book explores the values of equality and diversity as promoted across liberal societies, drawing on various traditions of political and social philosophy, and applying them to policy and practice debates.

AbstractThe Wichita Eagle has installed an innovative, ongoing program to foster greater citizen awareness of and participation in the electoral process through activist research and reporting. The project involves evaluation of what constitutes substantive campaigning relevant to pressing community issues, and what constitutes extraneous political attack.

Chapter 1 – Introduction -- Chapter 2 – Well-Being and the Human Condition -- Chapter 3 – Well-Being, Pain, and Parfit: Time, Self-Interest and Pensions Policy -- Chapter 4 – Well-Being, Agency, and Finiteness: Time, Self-Acceptance and Disability Policy -- Chapter 5 – Well-Being, Melancholy, and Happiness: Bitter-Sweet Emotions, Sober Self-Reflection, Loss and Bereavement -- Chapter 6 – Well-Being, Radical Politics and False-Consciousness: Self-Knowledge, Disability, and 'Subjective' versus 'Objective' Perspectives in Co-Productive Practices -- Chapter 7 – Well-Being, Mental Illness, Co-Production and Social Prescription: Social Constructionism, Relational Integrity, and Agency -- Chapter 8 - Meaning and Purpose-Based Approaches to Pluralistic Understandings of Well-Being -- Chapter 9 – Conclusion: The Human Condition, Conflicting Experiences of Time, Emotion, Self-Consciousness, and Value Incommensurability.

Frontmatter -- Contents -- Preface -- Part I. Law and Metaphysics? -- 1. Just Words ? -- 2. Ontological Dynasties -- Part II. (How) Is Law for Real? -- 3. Does "the Law" Exist? -- 4. The Jurisprudence of Modernity -- Part III. The Metaphysics of Legal Meaning -- 5. How Does Law Mean? -- 6. Author(s)Wanted -- Part IV. Mind the Gap -- 7. Law in a Quandary -- Epilogue: Confusion and Confession -- Notes -- Index